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But no one plays a game where characters die. I mean, in all the RPGs I've ever played I'd never seen a player character die a permanent death. Either the DM fudges the rules pretty blatantly or some form of resurrection is brought into play. I've always thought that the answer to this was to make ...

shadzar wrote:Yes, because punching is so fucking a social encounter...oh wait! its a fucking combat encounter!

Do you even know what an analogy is?

I liked KH1 better than KH2, on the whole. There were some minor issues with the actual gameplay (as Lago mentioned, it's so fast paced that there's really nothing to do other than smash the X button (mixed in occasionally with triangle to get the reaction commands). Hell, I never even really used a...

Depends on who you ask. Some scientists classify them as a subspecies of humanity (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis vs. Homo sapiens sapiens), and others classify them as a separate species in the same genus (Homo neanderthalensis vs. Homo sapiens). Regardless, even if they are the same species, it's l...

My other question is, how much overlap would and should be allowed even if it does constitute schtick infringement? For example, say Ted and James both are huge fans of Bleach and want to make teleporty swordsmen. However, Ted wants to make his magic swordsman to be able to create and manipulate th...

Even low-level magic will completely change most "real-world" sort of things. Hell, Create Water is a spell that would cause a huge change in such things. A level 1 cleric using Create Water can make 10 gallons of water a day. Not huge, sure, but it doubles every level (Create Water create...

And religious people acting religious disappoints you... why? It's like being disappointed that water is wet or ice is cold.

shadzar wrote:Let me guess, it is the big ears right?

Hell yes, dude. Big ears are sexy.

Attaching a penalty to that seems like a bad idea, MGuy. You want the fighter to be able to continue contributing at each level, right? But with that scheme, they have to choose between being useless by missing constantly or being useless by doing crap damage. By giving PCs x2/x3/x4 damage in place ...

I can think of a few ways to have a satisfying experience that starts with you saving the world at level 1 and goes from there. If the PCs start out as janitor-slaves in Sauron's Mount Doom fortress, they can seriously just steal the One Ring and fling it into the Cracks of Doom while Sauron is out ...

I'm pretty sure we have completely irreconcilable differences in terminology now. Pretty much. However, discussing a hypothetical universe where the inputs were such that humans never developed a prescription against murder, but in all other ways (laws and other inputs) it was exactly the same, tal...

It doesn't get anywhere near space, either. Depending on who you ask, "space" starts at anywhere between 50 and 75 miles up. That site lists the highest altitude they reached at approximately 17.5 miles. For further comparison, the Space Shuttle usually operates at least 120 miles up.

An alignment thread? Sure, why not. Good vs. Evil is the other vs the self. Good places the importance of others over the importance of oneself. Good is self-sacrificing. Evil places the importance of oneself over the importance of others. Evil is self-serving. Law vs. Chaos is the group vs. the ind...

Thus, in an entirely deterministic universe, laws against murder make murder less common than the same universe without those laws. In an entirely deterministic universe, no other universe is possible . Really. If everything follows from the original inputs (be that the Big Bang or God's creation o...

So you are just retarded? You can't see how knowledge of the police coming to arrest me might prevent me from murdering someone? The fact that you can think "hey, if I get caught I'll go to jail, so I better not" implies choice , and thus free will. If you're determined to kill someone, t...

The problem with space travel (and particularly manned space travel, which requires a lot more in the way of mass) is that it's hard to get shit into orbit. Really. That's the single biggest problem. If we can solve that problem, space travel of all kinds gets massively, massively cheaper. The probl...

Moreover, free will doesn't even factor into your examples provided. They're all about intent and actions . Which are potentially measurable qualities and have nothing to do with predestination or free will. If free will did exist, then, what would prove it? If choice doesn't make free will, and ne...

What the fuck ? Ethics is about choices. You choose one thing because it's right, over another thing that benefits you more. If you cannot make a choice, there cannot be any ethics. Falling to the ground after you jump off a cliff is not an ethical action. Nor is it unethical. Ethics literally has n...

You can't decide not to do anything. Everything you do is a output from a process with inputs. And god made the inputs and the process. He of course made you so that you could only have one set of outputs. Then I don't have free will, and the entire conversation (which stems from the argument that ...

Did the bomb kill people, or did I kill people? Can the bomb decide to not kill people? If yes, then it's the bomb's fault. Otherwise yours. In reality, people can decide not to be dicks. If they decide to be dicks, then that's not God's fault -- except in as much as he allowed it to happen (which,...

Except when the kid says "I'm done with my homework and all my chores are done, what should I do now?" and the parents say "whatever you want, just don't get into trouble". Limited choice does not mean no choice.

She identifies herself as "extremely right wing and conservative". Despite the fact that if the conservatives had their way she would 1) Be bare foot pregnant and chained to the kitchen sink. 2) Be expected to pull herself up by her boot straps, why in MY day, blah blah, whipper snappers....

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:And the best part is, I get yelled at by the rest of the class for openly backing anarchcommunist thought.

Anarchocommunist thought? How the hell does that even work?

No matter what I choose first, he chooses second. And his choice is bigger than mine. So no matter what I choose, the choice that actually created the outcome that occurs is his, not mine. But if his choice is "whatever you said", then you're still making a real choice. The fact that he c...

My computer being real is 99.9.. % likely. God being real is 0.0...1 % likely. You are essentially stating that the statements "my computer is real" and "God is real" are both equally rational. Where did those numbers come from? How did you determine that it's very likely (but n...